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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Warren's leadership is not a question, concern, nor problem. Ty Warren is good for the New England Patriots. You have unreal expectations out of these guys as if they are supposed to be perfection or robots to appease your fan view of what they should be doing. Leadership was a problem because in one fell swoop Rodney, Bruschi and Vrabel (and Seymour?) were gone. The goal is not to replicate, or imitate those guys, but to find their own identity as a team unit. Each guy will lead in their own way, and to expect the personalities of Rodney or Bruschi out of everyone is unfair IMO. Guys like Wilfork have even said that it wasn't about outspoken guys keeping the locker room in check, it was about everyone doing their part, and leading by example etc...
Warren's pursuit of his degree is NOT a detriment to that lead by example. He will be back working as hard as anyone and the young kids will see that.
MO, relax, it's going to be OK
Money always changes everything.
Remember when players were making in the 100's of thousands at the most per year. Plenty of them went back to finish off degree requirements every year and not a peep out of anybody about it.
Today it's damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Money
I guess I missed him stepping up as a leader last season when they were searching for one on defense... They voted a second year LB as team captain on defense...that speaks volumes...
Williams played offensive tackle for the Oilers from 1989-1995, and then for the New York Jets in 1996 and 1997. David Williams will forever be known for "Babygate.'' In 1993, he was docked a week's pay by the Oilers for attending the birth of his first child. On Oct. 16 of that year, Debi Williams went into labor. Some 17 hours after his son, Scot, was born, the Oilers were scheduled to play New England. Williams planned to make the game, but hit a snag. "The last flight out of Houston was at 6:40 or 6:50 p.m. and I was at least a half hour from the airport. Obviously, I couldn't make it,'' Williams said. "We tried to figure a way to get there [Boston] and found there was a terrible fog problem. Our team flight had to land in New York and was delayed there two hours before they could even fly to Boston. It was just a bad deal.'' Some of Williams' teammates, along with a travel agent, tried to secure a charter flight. But the fog still was rolling in. The plane would have to land in New York, leaving Williams scrambling to find a way to Foxboro Stadium. "I basically said the hell with it. At that point, I was tired and exhausted,'' Williams said. "We had been up for hours and I did everything I could and I just wasn't going to make it.'' The Oilers docked Williams one week's pay ($111,111). Offensive line coach Bob Young was quoted in Houston newspapers as saying Williams could have made it to the game on time. He said Williams had his priorities mixed up and compared the situation to World War II, when men had to miss the births of their children to fight for their country. Houston owner Bud Adams insisted Williams made the wrong decision. The Oilers' response evoked outrage from women's groups throughout the country. Even Vice President Al Gore supported Williams' decision. Williams said he felt the Oilers handled the situation poorly, but they corrected it when teammate Cris Dishman's child was born a year later. "They had a limousine and Lear jet wait for him, " Williams said. "It was the same circumstance with him as me, but they took care of Cris. They learned their lesson because my situation wasn't the nicest of events for them.''
I remember that. I guess it's where a person puts their priorities and more power to them, but if I had been in this guy's shoes I would never forgive myself for missing the birth of my child. JC what red-blooded person would. Even the brave soldiers that miss it because of duty probably feel the same way, but the big difference being...they don't have a choice.